"I get from having fewer toxins in my body is extraordinary."" John Galliano John Charles Galliano (born November 28, 1960) is a Gibraltar-born British fashion designer who was the head designer of French fashion companies Givenchy (July 1995 to October 1996), Christian Dior (October 1996 to March 2011), and his own label John Galliano (1988 to 2011). At present, Galliano is the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela. Galliano has been named British Designer of the Year four times. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, he was named the fifth most influential person in British culture. He"
"John Galliano in London. She met Trinny Woodall in 1994, with whom she both proceeded to write a weekly fashion column, ""Ready to Wear"". They founded Ready2shop.com, a dot-com fashion advice business, and wrote their first fashion advice book in 2000, ""Ready 2 Dress"", both of which failed. From there they were commissioned to BBC Two to host the style series, ""What Not to Wear"", from 2001 to 2005. She made regular appearances as a style advisor on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"" and following her success on the shows, she went on to co-host ""Trinny & Susannah Undress..."" on ITV"
"a Spanish mother, Anita, and has two sisters. Galliano's father was a plumber. His family moved to England in pursuit of work when Galliano was six, and settled in Streatham, South London, before moving to Dulwich and later to Brockley. He was raised in a strict Roman Catholic family. Galliano, who was shy and diffident, often spoke of his struggle to fit in. Recalling his early days, he once admitted: ""I don't think people here understood where I was coming from."" His mother, a flamenco teacher, would dress him in his ""smartest"" outfit even for a trip to the local"
"Simon Procter Simon Procter (born 8 November 1968 in Lancashire, England) is an expatriate British artist and photographer who has collaborated with Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood, and whose work includes Galliano Royal. His work has appeared in ""V"" Magazine, ""Vogue"", ""Harper's Bazaar"", ""The New York Times""' ""T Magazine"", ""The Independent"", ""The Daily Telegraph"" magazine, ""Bullett"", ""Stiletto"" and ""Sport and Style"". His artwork is held in collections and museums worldwide, and has been shown at Paris's Grand Palais, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Art Basel Miami and the Moscow Museum of Art. Since 2005, he has worked"
"a citrus tree orchard. He came from the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in the vicinity of Naples, Italy, where he was in the service of the King of Spain. A popular local legend is that his wife, Julia, had no last name and was related closely to the King of Spain. Antoine Galliano or Galiano (Spanish spelling) had fallen in love with a lady of noble birth – probably a princess, since he was in the King's Guard. He and his wife were sent to Louisiana (New Spain) and settled in the area known now as Galliano. His descendants still"
"Ono, although Sean was born in New York City. English musician Dhani Harrison is the son of George Harrison of The Beatles and Mexican-American Olivia Trinidad Arias (who also now lives in the UK). In 2001, 306 Puerto Rican born people alone were residing in the United Kingdom (the 19th most common birthplace amongst Latin American states). Notable British residents of Puerto Rican origin or descent include actress Micaela Nevárez and former Miss World, Wilnelia Merced. Sir Richard Grenville captured the Roanoke Island Native American Raleigh (named for Sir Walter Raleigh) and brought him to Bideford following a skirmish in"
"Peter Gallina Peter Gallina (born in London) is an English fashion and advertising photographer, celebrity portraitist and visual artist based in London, but working internationally. His photography was first used commercially to launch the D fashion magazine distributed by the Italian newspaper la Repubblica in the late 1990s. Since then his work has been used or commissioned for clients ranging from MTV to Cosmopolitan. He has held many photographic exhibitions of his work, one of the largest of which was in Tokyo in the Spring of 2006. This exhibition, entitled ""Love Tokyo. Seen Unseen"", went on display at the “Gallery"
"uniting the colours of the Mediterranean with the refinement of the “Made in Italy” creating a style that is unique in the world, and to his way of dressing not only the body but also the soul of woman. He has been invited across the globe to show his creations: Jordan, Dubai, California, Morocco, Romania, Palestine, Azerbaijan and many locations in Italy, from Milan to Sicily. He has participated and received awards at: Fashion for Peace, Fashion in the Mediterranean, Fundraising for the needy, UNICEF fashion show for the children. Selected exhibitions where his work has been presented He has"
"met with critical acclaim and have sparked a renewed interest in London fashion. Having become one of the fashion industry's most fêted figures, Deacon was named British Fashion Designer of the Year in 2006 and was awarded the French ANDAM Fashion Award's Grand Prix in 2009. The designer was appointed creative director of French fashion house Ungaro in April 2010. Deacon retained the position until September 2011, when he and Ungaro mutually decided to end their collaboration. Deacon launched his first haute couture collection in 2016. Deacon was born in Darlington, County Durham, but grew up near Ullswater in the"
"Cardero. Cardero Street, in Vancouver's West End is named for the strait, and only as a result indirectly for Jose Cardero. José Cardero José Cardero (also Josef Cardero) (1766 – after 1811) was a Spanish draughtsman and artist. He was born in 1766 in Écija, Spain. He is most remembered for his work on the expedition of Alessandro Malaspina and the related expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano. During the Galiano voyage Cordero Channel was named in his honor. Other places in British Columbia were later named in his honor as well, including Dibuxante Point, ""dibuxante"" being Spanish for ""draughtsman"". Nothing"
"just the name Galiano, and this has become the name by which he is most known. Galiano was born in Cabra, Córdoba, Spain, in 1760. He entered the Spanish navy in 1771, at the age of 11, and enrolled in the Spanish naval school in 1775. After graduation in 1779 he entered active service. He participated in several hydrographic surveys and became skilled in cartography. As a junior officer he spent time in the River Plate region and the Falkland Islands. He returned to Spain in 1783. In 1784 Galiano met and worked with Alessandro Malaspina, with whom he would"
"in the area known as the Gulf of Guinea. Given the normal route that these ships took, it is likely that he was transported to an island in the Caribbean before being redeemed by Andrew Douglas of Mains (which is near Milngavie in Dumbartonshire) and transported to Scotland in 1702. Douglas would probably have chosen the name Scipio, whose namesake Scipio Africanus served the Roman Empire, defeating the numerically superior forces of Hannibal in the Punic Wars. Douglas had a daughter, Jean, who married John Kennedy in 1705, and Scipio moved to Culzean with them. During this time Scipio learned"
"21” in the Meridien Grand Pacific Hotel in the Odaiba area of Tokyo. The forty photographs were all printed by hand, with some as big as three meters by two meters, literally making it one of the largest photographic exhibitions Tokyo had seen. Gallina is a member of the British Press Photographers Association. Peter Gallina Peter Gallina (born in London) is an English fashion and advertising photographer, celebrity portraitist and visual artist based in London, but working internationally. His photography was first used commercially to launch the D fashion magazine distributed by the Italian newspaper la Repubblica in the late"
"France 24, ""The Sunday Times"", ""Gatopardo"", and the ""San Francisco Chronicle"". He currently lives in Mexico City. According to the biography section in his official webpage, Grillo grew up in the coastal city of Brighton, England—famous for its pink candy, pebble beaches, colleges and bubbling night clubs. On the darker side, however, Brighton is notorious for being one of British's top places for drug consumption. And according to the author, few people there realize where the substances they are intaking come from or what they might give or takeaway from those countries. Moreover, Grillo began working as a drug war"
"from Dunkirk. He transferred to Intelligence Corps, and was posted to North Africa and then Italy, where his language skills became valuable. He ran radio and theatre services in liberated Italy. Back in England, he became a director of London and Eastern Trade Bank, before leaving London to run a farm near Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia, growing Virginia tobacco, maize, peanuts and pasture seed. He became active in the local United Party. He met his wife, the former model Katie Hinton (known as Nicki), daughter of Captain H. V. Hinton, in Africa. They married in 1954 and honeymooned on Elba,"
"the then-community of Charleston, Province of Canada (now ""Caledon Village"", part of Caledon, Ontario, Canada.) He was the sixth of 14 children, including two elder brothers who died in childhood. His father, born in Barrow, Alwinton, Northumberland, England (or possibly Jedboro, Scotland) on December 30, 1832, emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 17, later emigrating to Canada where he variously became a railroader, a hardware store owner (John Wanless & Sons), and a home heating furnace manufacturer in Toronto (where Wanless Park and several streets are named after one of their distant relations, also"
"(1888 – 6 February 1955) was a Gallipoli veteran and a humanitarian worker. He was born in London, raised in Scotland, and sailed to Australia in 1905, aged 17, working first as a jackaroo. He joined the Australian forces at the outbreak of the First World War and served in Gallipoli until being discharged for wounds and illness. He later became a journalist and writer. He and Joice NanKivell wed in 1919. They sailed for England and secured a contract to write a book on Ireland, which was published as ""Ireland in Travail"". In addition to the honours bestowed on"
"raises money for local charities through a celebrity charity event. The company is headquartered in Grassina in Bagno a Ripoli, a region surrounding Florence, Italy. The headquarters house Ermmano Scervino's designer style offices, research labs, production workshops and administrative and commercial divisions. In April 2014, Ermanno Scervino had over 500 international points of sale, including 39 stores worldwide. It employs about 1200 workers worldwide. The company only manufactures its products in Italy. Ermanno Scervino is the core brand and includes women's and men's ready-to-wear and accessories collections. The company launched its lingerie collection for its fall/winter 2008-09 campaign. The beachwear"
"Galliano as a fashion house, and is regarded as a 'fashion moment' in high fashion circles. In July 1995, he was appointed as the designer of Givenchy by Bernard Arnault, owner of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, thus becoming the first British designer to head a French haute couture house. On 21 January 1996, Galliano presented his first couture show at the helm of Givenchy at the Stade de France. The collection received high praise within the fashion media. Some of Galliano's designs for Givenchy were licensed to Vogue Patterns. He was later replaced by Alexander McQueen. In October 1996, LVMH"
"José Cardero José Cardero (also Josef Cardero) (1766 – after 1811) was a Spanish draughtsman and artist. He was born in 1766 in Écija, Spain. He is most remembered for his work on the expedition of Alessandro Malaspina and the related expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano. During the Galiano voyage Cordero Channel was named in his honor. Other places in British Columbia were later named in his honor as well, including Dibuxante Point, ""dibuxante"" being Spanish for ""draughtsman"". Nothing is known about Cardero's life until he sailed with Malaspina in 1789. He was a member of the crew of Malaspina's"
"she gave birth to his son James. On his return from the war, he reinvented himself with stronger Scottish roots, dispensing with his two middle names and acquiring the new middle name Robertson out of his habit of wearing Robertson tartan. Feeling strongly about his Scottish ancestry, he once claimed to have been born in 1905 under a distillery on the Isle of Skye; many sources listed his birthplace as Wigtown, Wigtownshire, now in Dumfries and Galloway. He lived in Wigtown at Orchardton House between 1946 and 1950. He unsuccessfully contested the North Angus and Mearns constituency for the Labour"
"born on 29 October 1753 at Liège to Charles and his mistress Clementina Walkinshaw, whom he had met during the Jacobite rising of 1745 (when he came to Scotland from France in an attempt to regain by force the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, which had been lost by his grandfather, James II and VII, in 1689). Clementina (1720–1802) was the youngest of the ten daughters of John Walkinshaw of Barrowhill (1671–1731). The Walkinshaws owned the lands of Barrowfield and Camlachie, and her father had become a wealthy Glasgow merchant (founding the textile village of Calton). However, he was"
"that ""when a child, he removed with his British parents from South America to New Zealand"", which if correct would have duly classified him as a subject of the Queen. His actual paternal genealogy was not publicly known during his life and it is not known whether he was aware of it. A biography later claimed that his mother ""went to considerable lengths to invent a British pedigree"". In a 1993 interview, his daughter Jacqueline Dunn née Watson claimed he was born at sea in international waters off Chile. Watson attended the state school in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand"
"shops. His attire, combined with his creative sensibilities, caused him frequent persecution at the London boys' grammar school he attended. After attending St. Anthony's School and Wilson's Grammar School in London, Galliano went on to study at Saint Martin's School of Art, from which he graduated in 1984 with a first class honours degree in Fashion Design. His first collection was inspired by the French Revolution and entitled ""Les Incroyables"". The collection received positive reviews and was bought in its entirety for resale in the London fashion boutique Browns. Galliano then started his own fashion label alongside long-term collaborators Amanda"
"Galiano Island Galiano Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Located on the west side of the Strait of Georgia, it is long, at its widest point, and across at its narrowest point and is separated from Saltspring Island by Trincomali Channel. On the western side of the island there are a series of sandstone caves. The island is northwest of Mayne Island, northeast of Saltspring Island and southeast of Valdes Island. It is part of the Capital Regional District Electoral Area G, and has a population of"
"Amanda Harlech Amanda Harlech, Baroness Harlech (born Amanda Jane Grieve) is a British creative consultant and writer with a long association with the couturiers John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1997. Amanda Jane Grieve was born in 1959 in north London, the daughter of Alan Grieve, a solicitor and director of the Jerwood Foundation and his first wife, Anne Dulake. She grew up in Regent's Park where one of her childhood companions was Jasper Conran. She was educated at South Hampstead High School and Marlborough College before studying"
"The Napoli in east Devon, and the flooding of the Cornish village of Boscastle. Hall was born in the village of Oakley, in Bedfordshire. (His parents later moved to Lincoln, and then Littlehampton in West Sussex.) He went to Littlehampton Community School and then the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he joined the college radio station, UKC Radio. Hall later did a diploma in broadcast journalism at University College, Cardiff. Hall joined the BBC as a trainee. He later worked for ITV. He worked around England before settling in the South West. Simon is married to Jess, who is"
"to himself as ""an Englishman in Italiane"". John's father, Michelangelo Florio, born in Tuscany, had been a Franciscan friar before converting to the Protestant faith. He got into trouble with the Inquisition in Italy, after preaching in Naples, Padua, and Venice. Seeking refuge in England during the reign of Edward VI, he was appointed pastor of the Italian Protestant congregation in London in 1550. He was also a member of the household of William Cecil. He was dismissed from both on a charge of immorality, but William Cecil later fully forgave him. Little is known of Florio's mother; she may"
"2018, Galliano made a powerful statement in Paris at his Maison Margiela show, when he unveiled Mutiny, his first perfume for the fashion house. The perfume is a reflection of his vision of the Maison Margiela women. In interviews, Galliano has given his full name as Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano-Guillén. He had a relationship with fellow Central St Martins student and fashion designer John Flett (1963–1991), whom Galliano described as his ""soulmate"". Galliano currently shares his Paris home with his long-term partner Alexis Roche, a style consultant. He is vegetarian for health reasons, telling French ""Elle"" that ""The energy that"
"Stephen Jones (milliner) Stephen Jones OBE (born 1957) is a leading British milliner based in London, who is considered one of the world's most radical and important milliners of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He is also one of the most prolific, having created hats for the catwalk shows of many leading couturiers and fashion designers, such as John Galliano at Dior and Vivienne Westwood. His work is known for its inventiveness and the high level of technical expertise with which he realises his ideas. Jones co-curated the 2009 exhibition ""Hats: An Anthology"" for the Victoria and Albert"
"unique dedicated production facility in Lincolnshire (UK). Dresses are sold via specialist stockists throughout the world. She has featured in interviews with ""Brides Magazine"", ""Wedding Magazine"" and ""Wedding TV and featured on ""How the Rich Get Hitched"" which ran on Channel 4 in 2015"" Caroline Castigliano Caroline Castigliano (c.1960 -) is a British fashion designer, noted for her elegant timeless classic wedding and evening wear dress ranges, the Caroline Castigliano Collection. In her early twenties she set up a business in Florida, 'Survival Kit', designing sportswear for women, which was sold in Macy's, Bloomingdales and Saks. In 1990, she returned"
"Antonio Berardi Antonio Berardi (born 1968) is a British fashion designer of Sicilian descent, known especially for his dresses. He currently shows his collection at London fashion week, but has shown at Milan and Paris in the past. Berardi was born in Grantham, in Lincolnshire. His parents were Sicilians who emigrated to Britain in the 1950s. He developed an interest in fashion at a young age. As a nine-year-old he saved his money for Armani shirts with leather gusset shoulders. After secondary (high) school he decided on a career in design and, after attending Lincoln College of Art and Design,"
"Ghana and Tanzania in Africa; Jamaica, Barbados in the Caribbean; the United States, Canada in North America; and the United Kingdom in Europe. Scipio was born in 1784 in the Owu area of Yorubaland, in Abeokuta. He was captured by European trans-Atlantic slave traders in 1805 and taken together with other captured slaves to the Velekete Slave Market in Badagry, Nigeria's slave port from where he was shipped in a slave ship and taken upcountry to Camden, about 30 miles northeast of Columbia, South Carolina to Charleston, South Carolina, United States where he was sold as a slave to a"